ELLE Celebrates the Fourth Annual Women in Tech Power List

"It's nice to be in a room full of women―you don't get that a lot in Silicon Valley," one of ELLE's Women in Tech honorees said Wednesday night, surveying the room full of female entrepreneurs, founders, and industry insiders gathered at the Wayfair Tavern in San Francisco to celebrate. With a list that includes the chief scientist of AI and machine learning for Google Cloud, the founder of Black Girls Code, and the cofounder of the Malala Fund (who then went on to launch Now Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in mission-driven start-ups), it wasn't just a room full of women; it was a room full of seriously inspiring women.

"There is a major gender gap in the industry, so it's important that we celebrate women doing incredible things," said Laura Medalia, the coding-enthusiast behind the Instagram @codergirl_, who'd come to toast the 2017 honorees. "That way younger generations of girls can see what an amazing industry this is and how much impact one can have on the world as a woman in tech."

See photos from Wednesday's event, presented by Dyson Supersonic and in partnership with ASOS.

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